Abstract-This paper investigates the Dufour and Soret effects on unsteady MHD free convection flow past a semi-infinite moving vertical plate in a porous medium considering the viscous dissipation effects. The resulting governing equations are transformed into non linear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformation. The set of non linear ordinary differential equations are first linearized by using Quasi-linearization technique and then solved numerically by using implicit finite difference scheme. Then the system of algebraic equations is solved by using Gauss-Seidal iterative method. The solution is found to be mainly dependent on six governing parameters including the magnetic field parameter M, the suction parameter v0, Soret number Sr, Dufour number Du, Eckert number Ec, and Darcian parameter Da. Numerical results are tabulated for the local Nusselt number and Sherwood number. Velocity, Temperature and Concentration profiles drawn for different controlling parameters reveal the tendency of the solution.Index Terms-Magnetic field effects, Soret and Dufour effects, suction, viscous dissipation.
I. INTRODUCTIONCombined heat and mass transfer (or double-diffusion) in fluid-saturated porous media finds applications in a variety of engineering processes such as heat exchanger devices, petroleum reservoirs, chemical catalytic reactors and processes, geothermal and geophysical engineering moisture migration in a fibrous insulation and nuclear waste disposal and others. Double diffusive flow is driven by buoyancy due to temperature and concentration gradients. Bejan and Khair [1] investigated the free convection boundary layer flow in a porous medium owing to combined heat and mass transfer.Magneto hydrodynamic flows have applications in meteorology, solar physics, cosmic fluid dynamics, astrophysics, geophysics and in the motion of earth"s core. In addition from the technological point of view, MHD free convection flows have significant applications in the field of stellar and planetary magnetospheres, aeronautical plasma flows, chemical engineering and electronics.Raptis [2] studied mathematically the case of time varying two dimensional natural convective flow of an incompressible, electrically conducting fluid along an infinite vertical porous plate embedded in a porous medium. Elabashbeshy [3] studied heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate in the presence of magnetic field. Chamkha and Manuscript received November 9, 2013; revised January 17, 2014. M. N. Raja Shekar is with the JNTUH College of Engineering Jagityal, Nachupally, Karimnagar-505 501, Andhra Pradesh, India (e-mail: mnrs71@ gmail.com). Khaled [4] investigated the problem of coupled heat and mass transfer by magneto hydrodynamic free convection from an inclined plate in the presence of internal heat generation or absorption.In the combined heat and mass transfer processes, it is known that the thermal energy flux resulting from concentration gradients is referred to as the Dufour or diffusion-thermal effect. Similarly, th...